Josiah Bounderby falsely claims his success in life was a result of his hard work and never receiving help from anyone in Charles Dickens’ Hard Times. Claiming to be a self-made man grants Mr. Bounderby wide admiration in Coketown‚ with the exception of Tom and Louisa Gradgrind and Mrs. Sparsit‚ who perceive him to be an insolent person. Tom mirrors Mr. Bounderby’s selfish and hypocritical personality‚ but blames the old man for his rigid upbringing. Louisa cannot admire Mr. Bounderby while he shamelessly
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he never knew she was troubled; he couldn’t recognize his child’s feelings. All that he had confidence in was broken and he needs to make it up to his child. The entire framework fell apart when Gradgrind loses trust in it. On the opposite side‚ Bounderby keeps a firm confidence in the framework‚ so before all else and at last he’s in a similar circumstance (a bachelor)‚ his character does not experience self-awareness. He speaks to the belief system of realities‚ yet himself lives in a figment of
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provides three vivid examples of this utilitarian logic in Hard Times through the characters of Mr. Thomas Gradgrind‚ Mr. Bounderby‚ and Mr. Gradgrind. Mr. Gradgrind educates his daughter‚ Louisa‚ with facts and facts alone. He raises her to disregard emotions and see everything in terms of statistics. He forces this type of education upon Louisa much like the marriage with Bounderby that ends up being nothing but a loveless marriage without any hope for improvement. Written during the Victorian era
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but in actuality they are. A strong example would be Josiah Bounderby‚ the wealthiest character in the novel. Mr. Bounderby is a factory and bank owner in Coketown‚ the industrial town in which the novel is set. He claims that he came from nothing to riches and has no problem exclaiming the trials and hard times that he went through to get to where he is now. While the people who hear these stories have no reason to doubt Mr. Bounderby‚ they later learn that he was actually making up all of these
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looking at entertainment and such having to do with imagination. He raised them to stick strictly by facts. Louisa defends her brother saying she convinced him to watch with her and that she was only curious. Chapter 4 1. It tells about how Mr. Bounderby was born and raised while they are in a drawing room at Stone Lodge. 2. Characters introduced include Thomas
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flowers because she is "fond" of them. Sissy is taught that she must not "fancy" and that she is "to be in all things regulated and governed by fact." [pic][pic][pic][pic][pic]Mr. Josiah Bounderby is Mr. Gradgrind’s closest friend‚ and just like Gradgrind he is a man "perfectly devoid of sentiment." Bounderby is very wealthy from his trade as a banker‚ a merchant and a manufacturer among other things. He has an imposing figure and his entire body is oversized‚ swelled and overweight. He calls himself
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Mr Bounderby to the reader. He is introduced as being a proud‚ arrogant‚ factual man‚ displaying his dominance and is used by Dickens to represent men in the novel. This idea of Bounderby’s pride and dominance is not unexpected due to the stigmas of the era‚ men were generally considered to be better‚ more capable than women. His factual nature is also typical as it represents the theme of fact and fancy that Dickens has used throughout the book. Firstly Dickens makes it clear that Bounderby is
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How does Dickens use the theme of deception in Hard Times? Dickens uses the theme of deception in Hard Times through education‚ class divides‚ utilitarianism‚ imagery and entrapment. The utilitarians of the Victorian era were concerned only with analysis and facts and they were insensitive to peoples’ qualities such as imagination. Dickens was strongly against this and this is portrayed throughout the novel with the theme of deception highlighting how the people in education and of power treated
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who wrote An Essay on the Principle of Population‚ warning of the dangers of future overpopulation) and Jane. Gradgrind apprehends Louisa and Tom‚ his two eldest children‚ at the circus. Josiah Bounderby‚ "a man perfectly devoid of sentiment"‚ is revealed as being Gradgrind’s boss. Bounderby is a
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portrays this through the use of placing his characters’ names with their dominant personality trait. For example the character of Bounderby who is identified as a banker in the novel; by definition means “a morally reprehensible person” (Merriam-Webster) thus his character portrayal is presented as a very dishonest character. Through the quote “I am Josiah Bounderby of Coketown. I know the bricks of this town‚ and I know the works of this town‚ and I know the chimneys of this town‚ and I know the
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